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Ecologically- and economically-rich coral reefs occur in very specific places on our planet.
New species finds include a succulent plant, worms and crustaceans near a hydrothermal vent and desert bees.
How can we effectively communicate the urgency around plastic pollution in the ocean to effect change?
What are and will be the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the wildlife in the area? Academy researchers weigh in.
Scientists are discovering that coral larvae use sound to get to a safe place and new home.
Scientists are warning that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is much worse than originally thought.
Indigenous tribes that have had no contact with the outside world are facing extinction.
Local scientists just published the first genome sequence of a frog. Studying it may help frogs and humans alike.